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Important update from TheSchoolRun

For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

What this means for subscribers:

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  • In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

A few changes to be aware of:

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What are adverbs?

What is an adverb?
Use our quick guide to adverbs to help your child understand this descriptive part of speech.

What are adverbs?

Adverbs are one of the eight parts of speech. They explain a bit more about the activity being described.

So, in the sentence, ‘I walked to school’, you could insert an adverb to say ‘I walked carefully to school’ or ‘I walked happily to school’. The adverb is modifying the verb to describe the action.

If you add to that sentence to say ‘I walked very happily to school’, you’ll be modifying the adverb ‘happily’ with another adverb, ‘very’.

Also, in the sentence, ‘I’m sleepy,’ you can include an adverb to describe how sleepy – ‘I’m extremely sleepy’ or ‘I’m moderately sleepy’. The adverb is modifying the adjective here.

When will my child learn about adverbs in school?

Adverbs are part of the Key Stage 2 curriculum, but you can easily (note the adverb!) prepare your child by highlighting adverbs when they’re working on creative writing exercises.

My child is having trouble understanding adverbs – what’s the best way to explain them?

There are lots of words that can be turned into adverbs by adding (i)ly at the end. For example: proud becomes proudly, slow becomes slowly, pretty becomes prettily. Ask your child to think up more words that fall into this category, make a list and create sentences with them. It is important that your child learns throughout KS2 that not all adverbs end in ‘ly’ though. For example, fast, late, first, always, sometimes etc.

Because adverbs describe more about what’s happening, they’re a way to embellish everyday phrases and conversation to say a little more about how we feel. Ask your child to explain things they do during the day, but to include adverbs that give their descriptions a more personal touch.

Help your child get to grips with using adverbs by giving them one of our worksheets about adverbs to try. Then, for fun, play our adverbs game!